Community, Competition and Citizen Science

Name: Community, Competition and Citizen Science
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Voluntary Distributed Computing in a Globalized World

Autor: Anne Holohan

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Voluntary distributed computing projects divide large computational tasks into small pieces of data...

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Autor

Anne Holohan

Język

Angielski

Oprawa

Książka - Twarda

Data wydania

2013

strony

146

EAN

9781409452980

ISBN

1409452980

Enbook ID

04783570

Wydawca

Taylor & Francis Ltd

Waga

408

Wymiary

156 x 234 x 10

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Voluntary distributed computing projects divide large computational tasks into small pieces of data or work that are sent out over the Internet to be processed by individual users, who participate voluntarily in order to provide solutions that would ordinarily require investments of millions of dollars. This approach is contributing to the transformation of computationally heavy scientific research, opening up participation in science to interested lay people and greatly reducing the cost-barriers to computation for financially challenged researchers.Drawing on face-to-face and online ethnographic, survey and interview data with participants in distributed computing projects around the world, this book sheds light on the organizational and social structures of voluntary distributed computing projects, communities and teams, with close attention to questions of motivation in projects that offer little or no traditional forms of reward, either financially or in terms of participants' careers. With its focus on non-market, non-hierarchical cooperation, this book is a case study of networked individuals around the world who are part of a new social production of information.A rich study of the transformative potential inherent in globalization and connectedness, Community, Competition and Citizen Science will appeal to sociologists and political scientists with interests in globalization, networks and science and technology studies, together with scholars and students of media and communication and those working in relevant fields of computing, information systems and scientific collaboration.

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